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G’day folks! Once again, I’ve strayed outside my comfort zone in regards to painting lexan bodies. My Vanquish Phoenix is getting a new body and I’m painting it using a combination Tamiya rattle cans, my trusted airbrush, and a fine detail brush. I’m not quite done yet, so at this stage you’ll have to make do with some pictures of [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! For most of my “hobby life”, my time modeling has been spent with r/c vehicles. Not so much on scale static models. Sure, I’ve done a few military vehicles, cars, and monster trucks over the years…but I wouldn’t say I’m a modeler. The more I got into scale r/c the last decade, the more that traditional modeling [...]
Yo and happy generic weekday! May it be a good one and provide you with a bit of relaxing hobby time. Failing that, let it at least provide you with some time of day dreaming of your next project – I’m sure there is one. I myself spend way too much time thinking of upcoming hobby projects, be it RC, [...]
Happy Thanksgiving all! I’m writing the Thursday Monster Truck Madness from the kitchen this week. The stuffing is in the oven and cranberry sauce is made and sitting in the fridge, so my two responsibilities for the day are done! I’ve gotten big into building 1:25 scale models recently (I will talk about this next week, it’s monster truck related!) and knowing [...]
Greetings all and Happy Thursday! The International Monster Truck Museum and Hall of Fame in Butler, IN held it’s annual induction ceremony over the past weekend. This is one of the most important events on the full scale monster truck calendar. JConcepts is a proud sponsor of the HOF, and they usually tease a new r/c monster truck product while in [...]
Yeah, I know, scale pictures is all the rage nowadays. There’s zillions of those around, so I decided to do skate pics instead. Nothing like the local skate park for interesting backgrounds.So, beast number six is finally done: Fawkes the Phoenix. Blue and orange, contrasting colors for a simple and effective color scheme. I’m pretty happy with it, didn’t take [...]
Greetings all and happy Thursday! Well, some big (small) news dropped today! Losi has announced the 1/18 Mini LMT 4X4 Brushed Monster Truck RTR, in Grave Digger and Sonuva Digger body packages. You can click the link here for the full specs, but the main gist is that Losi, well, shrank the larger LMT into a smaller platform that has a very [...]
Element RC has released the Enduro ZUUL trail truck! The Element RC ZUUL shares the same chassis design as the Element RC Ecto, with a few differences. The wheels and tires, along with the body on the ZUUL are different, as well as the scale garage. The ZUUL has been a blast to drive, as are all of the Element [...]
Lots of things are great about the Redcat RDS, but not the body. I am very happy about that, since it keeps the price down at lets me spend that money on getting whatever body I want instead. Sure, the included body does a good job covering the chassis and it’s got magnetic body mounts to boot, but for looks? [...]
Hey everyone and Happy Thursday! This week marks 10 years of writing for Big Squid, which is pretty crazy to me. Back in 2013, I remember reading the site and seeing they were looking for someone to write a weekly blog on the world of Scale RC, which at the time was starting to REALLY boom. I was running a new [...]
Greetings everyone and Happy Thursday! I received a couple questions via e-mail last week (doug@bigsquidrc.com) that made for good mailbag fodder, so let’s get to ’em. Hello I’m interested in getting into the pulling truck thing been in RC since the 80s have over 35 Plus vehicles would like to build one from scratch but not sure what chassis to use [...]
One thing that didn’t make the move to Australia was my compressor, so a couple of days ago I bought myself new one. Airflow isn’t quite as high as I would like, but it got the job done when I painted the interior of my VS4-10. Gotta do something while I wait for some bits and bobs for my RDS [...]
G’day folks and may it be a happy one! A good way for me to make any day better, is to paint. Case in point: I have more painted RC bodies than I have chassis to fit them on. Currently on my work desk (well, outside dining table) is the body of my VS4-10 Phoenix. According to personal naming tradition [...]
Good day everyone and Happy Thursday- we’re almost to the weekend! Over the last month or so I feel like I’ve not pulled very much trigger, save for a single monster truck race day, but I feel about as busy as ever due to constantly working on various projects. The one I’m focused on finished first is my RC4WD K10 Scottsdale [...]
By now, no one can have missed the coolest release of the year: RC4WD’s Miller Motorsports 1/10 Pro Rock Racer. In my mind, this is the best thing that has happened in a long time: someone finally taking the 2.2″ rock crawler-racer game to the next level. Amazing scale looks, 2-speed transmission with selectable 2WD or 4WD, selectable front and [...]
